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Muppets from Space

Synopsis

Space. It's not as deep as you think.

When Gonzo's breakfast cereal tells him that he's the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication get him kidnapped by a secret government agency, prompting the Muppets to spring into action. It's hard to believe Gonzo's story at first, but Kermit and friends soon find themselves on an epic journey into outer space filled with plenty of intergalactic misadventures.

Not the greatest muppet movie of all time, but a lot of good fun along the way. Was Jeffrey Tambor really that chubby back then?!! Lots of funny bits and who doesn't love Gonzo? I just would've liked more Fozzie and how come there wasn't any songs?

Not the greatest Muppets movie I have seen but still enough for me to hold my interest until the end. I got to admit that I missed the music from everything else with them going down this path, The Muppets need music

Plenty of laughs with all the characters. Animal is who I would like to see more of even though no one really understands him.

First it's clowns, and now it's animal (or whatever Gonzo is) puppets that aren't even "killer", so it would appear as though aliens were on a streak of getting less intimidating from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. I probably shouldn't be drawing comparisons, because I'm sure this film was glad to see the Muppets escape from Disney and into an "original" story that wasn't written by a Brit during the 19th century, but even the tagline of this film makes no pretense. "Space: it's not as deep as you think", is what it says, but this is probably a little deeper than previous Muppet opuses, for it doesn't get caught up in all of the fun and games…

'Muppets From Space' is generally considered to be the weakest Muppets film to date and I'm not going to lie, I agree with that statement. Still, the movie isn't all that bad. It's still got the Muppet charm and lovable characters. Still, this is like 'Take Manhattan' in that it goes for a more cinematic story and less breaking the fourth wall. Also, this one isn't a musical and primarily focuses on Gonzo instead of Kermit. But I did like the idea behind this film's story, which sees Gonzo trying to figure out where he comes from. Being that he's one of my favorite Muppets, I found this story to be pretty interesting. Despite this, 'Muppets From Space' is still not as good as some of the other films in the franchise.

"I had that weird dream again." "You mean the one with the goat and the dwarf and the jar of peanut butter?"

Another classic childhood nostalgia journey that doesn't hype up to what I thought of it as a child.

Muppets from Space suffers from a lot of childish humour, and for a film intended for children, there are a lot of cameos that only adults would recognise. Furthermore, similar to the Recess: School's Out film adaption, the film has a vibe consisting of the 1960's, for no apparent reason. The soundtrack is full of soul and funk tracks, and when the aliens sing a rendition of "Celebration".

My review -- this film is now on DVD and sadly it does have a financial loss to its name of roughly $2 million. The plot is as follows, the viewer meets The Great Gonzo as he is beginning to wonder what is he and where does he belong and to compound this he is beginning to receive messages from outer space. Now this would be the first time I have seen this installment and I have to be honest it isn't the best, it doesn't have the most astonishing musical numbers in fact when we do have a musical number they are brief and straight to the point, so most of the time we have musical backtracking in the…

At their best, the Muppets are super-meta kid’s musicals that aren’t afraid of adult references and jokes to keep the whole family plugged in. Muppets from Space drops these elements in favor of era-sensitive humor (ie Shrek), and it comes off as lazy, forced, and downright pointless. Despite a decent premise (all Muppets live in one house, alien conspiracies), it’s easily the worst Muppet film with little to no emotional pull and only a few jokes that actually hit….such a shame.